Imagine

From St George’s Hillit’s only fifteen minutes by carto the nearest Food Bank.Walking, it’s an hour, or sovia three golf coursesand private roads.

A Brotherhood of Man

On April Fool’s Day, 1649,the Diggers came, not to turn the world upsidedown,but to cultivate the wasteland, and the common land.There would be no buying or selling of labourthe landless poor would support themselvesand the earth would be a treasury for all.

Living Life in Peace

They were, of course, attackedby the locals, by the gentry, by the armyby a gang of men dressed as womencrops wrecked, huts pulled down,arrested, taken to court, fined, harassed.By August they’d gone.By 1650 it was done.

No Possessions

A house at St George’s Hillcan cost as much as the averageperson might earn in 528 yearsor maybe slightly less factoring in whatever must be factored for the future.